When Dracula Danced With Mickey: The Strange Story of Bela Lugosi and Fantasia

Before Fantasia became one of The Walt Disney Company’s most ambitious animated masterpieces, it nearly featured the King of Horror himself: Bela Lugosi.

Yes, the man who terrified audiences as Dracula apparently spent time creeping around a Disney soundstage pretending to be a demon for a cartoon. If that sounds like a fever dream caused by eating expired Halloween candy, welcome to old Hollywood.